Sailor Moon (aka Usagi Tsukino) is the most well-known odango atama (Japanese for "meatball head") in anime. Her blonde hair is distinct of her character, and the style itself was made popular because of it. If you want to do your hair like Usagi Tsukino, you'll need to carefully and patiently follow these steps.

Basically, the meatballs comprising Sailor Moon's hairdo are just two pigtails tied into knots. The trick is twisting those pigtails before tying those knots to ensure rounded odango atama.

Steps

1

Part your hair directly down the center.

2

Take the first two hair ties, and pull each side into pigtails high on top of your head.

3

Here's the tricky part. Take the right pigtail and twist it counterclockwise about 2 or 3 times, or until it is a nice and tight.

Alternately, you can first take the left pigtail, twisting it clockwise.

Whichever method you choose, the hair should be twisting inwards, towards the forehead and center parting.

4

With one hand, place the thumb and index finger underneath the twisted pigtail.

5

With the other hand, pull the pigtail up, behind, and around over the hair tie.

6

Using your thumb and index finger, grab hold of the twisted pigtail.

7

Pull hair through the created loop, and into a knot.

8

With one hand, tighten the knot while the other hand guides the hair around, creating a rounded odango shape.

9

Place a hair tie behind the odango (aka meatball), tightly, to keep the knot from coming out.

10

Repeat process with the other pigtail, twisting in the opposite direction from the first, as stated in step 3. This way, both knots are symmetrical.

My hair is extremely short, which sailor has the shortest hair and how can I do that sailor's hair?

wikiHow Contributor

Sailor Uranus has the shortest hair. It is extremely short at the back, with semi-long bangs that are very simply styled to have body curving inwards (easily achieved with hair spray and a brush) and a little bit of hair on the sides to around ear length. Sailor Mercury is similar but the back is more the same length as the sides. Sailor Saturn is the last short hair style, which is slightly longer. It is an extremely blunt, straight-cut bob with straightened hair. The bangs are cut very straight and blunt as well, there are no layers in this hairstyle. In my opinion, you will need a haircut to fully achieve these styles. Take a look at a picture of each of these scouts.